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by Saeed Khan Muslims living in Western countries will now experience a dramatic shift in the way they plan and organize their trips for the Hajj. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) just announced that it was revamping the entire process for booking a trip to Makkah by unfurling a new website that allows for […]
by Dr. Muqtedar Khan In the past few days, we have heard some interesting statements from the RSS leadership. The statements directly and indirectly address Indian Muslims hinting that perhaps RSS is seeking a dialogue with Indian Muslims. First, on June 3 the RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat in a speech asked the question;” why expand […]
By Dr. Aslam Abdullah The world’s major religions are silent over the genocide attempts by Hindutva forces under the guidance of the ruling Hindu fascists against Muslims in India. However, Christian evangelists under the leadership of white supremacists see India as a potential killing field for those who they describe as anti-Christ. Jews favor Hitler’s […]
by Saeed Khan A recently released movie has yet again placed the spotlight on the Muslim community regarding public debates of free expression, religious sensitivities and purported accuracy of depiction. This current situation is somewhat unique as it also involves sectarian difference and even variance within a sect itself. The Lady of Heaven is a […]
by Victor Begg The National Rifle Association argued for a number of restrictive gun laws in the 1960s, including the Gun Control Act of 1968. The NRA supported the ban on mail-order rifle sales after Lee Harvey Oswald had bought the rifle used to assassinate President Kennedy from a mail-order ad in an NRA magazine. […]
Will the Qutub minar and the Taj Mahal too be destroyed by Hindutva vandals like the five-hundred-year-old Babri Masjid and replaced with temples? This article was first published by The Diplomat. by Muqtedar Khan Muslims in India can’t seem to catch a break. Every week there is a new assault on their faith, their […]
by Ghulam-Nabi Fai International Jurists Union organized a four-day international conference between May 19-22, 2022, at Konya, Turkey on the subject, “Violations of the human rights in the Islamic world.” Jurists, academics and scholars from 40 countries attended the conference. The conference was co-sponsored by Istanbul Bar Association, Ankara Bar Association, Ankara -based HUDER Legal […]
By Yousuf Ali Tens of thousands of far-right and ultranationalist Israelis raided the predominantly Muslim old city of Jerusalem. The purpose was to intimidate the native population. They called it the flag march and had it around the al-Aqsa mosque which is of great importance to the native Palestinian population and Muslims around the world. […]
by Dr. Aslam Abdullah He is Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Hindu fascist organization, RSS, which believes in the supremacy of upper castes because the deity carved of stones and mired in mythology told him so. The chief of the Hindu fascist organization, Mohan Bhagwat, would not want his party workers to look for […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC (June 2, 2022) – The Indian American Muslim Council, an advocacy organization dedicated to maintaining India’s constitutional values of pluralism and democracy, today commended the US State Department on its 2021 International Religious Freedom Report, which represents a detailed account of massive violations of religious freedom and persecution of 280 million […]
by Aysha Qamar During a press conference Thursday, police officials identified the four victims of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, shooting that occurred on Wednesday. According to authorities, Dr. Preston Phillips and Dr. Stephanie Husen, receptionist Amanda Glenn, and patient William Love died in the shooting. The gunman, Michael Louis, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, KOKI-TV reported. Identified as a patient of […]
by Ilyas Hasan Choudry Ibn Sina Foundation (ISF) in collaboration with prominent community organizations, arranged the first Muslim Mental Health Conference for Community Leaders in Houston, Texas on Saturday, May 14, 2022, at Marriott Hotel Sugar Land, Texas. Mental health is a great challenge faced by people from all walks of life. There is a […]
by Aysha Qamar As incidents of hate against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community continue to increase nationwide, adults are not the only ones perpetrating violence. AAPI children are facing increased bullying, and similarly to how some adults are treated, the children often face bias when it comes to reporting that harassment. A video of an […]
The masked white supremacy in America by Aslam Abdullah The Buffalo shooter was not a lone individual whose mental imbalance led him to a mall to kill 11 black and two white Americans in the age group of 20 to 86. Instead, he is the product of an ideology and culture that America has long […]
by Saeed Khan The United States experienced its 56th mass shooting of 2022 in Buffalo on Saturday, May 14, when 18-year old Payton Gendron drove three hours from his upstate New York home to open fire in a supermarket, killing 10 and wounding three others, before being apprehended by police. While mass shootings have become […]
by Aysha Qamar The world mourned when Shireen Abu Akleh, a renowned Palestinian journalist, died on Wednesday. Headlines across the globe highlighted her accomplishments and work as a “journalist for the people.” Despite the widespread coverage, many media outlets have been criticized for their lack of accuracy when reporting on her death. Al Jazeera and other outlets called […]
By Yousuf Ali On Wednesday, May 12, Israeli forces conducted a Raid in the West Bank city of Jenin. In this raid, they killed the Palestinian Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh even though she was wearing a helmet and had clearly been labeled as “press” due to her vest. The killing comes following increasing Israeli escalation […]
Issue 6 Volume24 May 2022 Print
by Aysha Qamar Across the country, several thousand university students were unable to commemorate their graduations over the past two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. While their graduations were severely delayed, the University of Michigan’s class of 2020 students—who didn’t have a traditional commencement ceremony—were in for a treat this weekend: They had the country’s […]
by Rehan Qamar The number of biased crimes against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community continues to increase nationwide. Several data reports have indicated an alarming surge across the country, with some major cities seeing over a 100% increase in AAPI targeted hate crimes. While crimes against the AAPI community are not a new phenomenon, a […]
